Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emissions target moderate enough to attract some support from business and the G.O.P. While officials are hoping to craft a proposal acceptable to other countries for the Kyoto summit, they privately admit the negotiations could take several years. That will buy Clinton time to work on his long-term strategy: persuading the public, starting this week at a White House conference, to tolerate some pain now for the sake of a less threatening future. So, next time you turn on the Weather Channel, don't be surprised to see Clinton delivering the 100-year forecast...
What is certain about this case is that Sam Manzie was suffering a particularly tortured adolescence. He failed to complete his freshman term at an all-boys Catholic school this year, and it seems he might not have been attending school this fall. From age 12, Manzie, a bright boy, grew increasingly solitary and began spending more and more time alone with his computer. He created a home page on the Web that told of his passion for the band Smashing Pumpkins and expressed his wish for true friends...
After slide tackling a ball during a field hockey game at Harvard, Mayer experienced a mild form of amnesia that knocked out segments of her short term memory, leading her to take two years off and forever barring her from the realm of campus contact sports...
After diving, or slide-tackling, a ball during a game at the end of the season, Mayer sustained a concussion that caused short term memory loss and eventually forced her to leave school--and the team...
...something was wrong, and Mayer returned home without taking her final exams. Diagnosed with indeterminable short-term memory loss, Mayer decided to work at home (not an easy task, she says, considering that no one wanted to hire someone with a head injury) for a semester and then joined City Year to volunteer for 10 months before returning to college...